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[Deathwurm]

So...
The Economy is pretty much in the dumps for nearly everyone (Congrats to you if you're out there still holding your own) & I was just wondering what others have had to give up from their "Fun Funds" to make ends meet?
For me it's Comic Books!
I've been a Life-Long Comic reader/lover/collector and I've had to cut them completely out! I got lucky in a sense, because I'm mostly a Bat-Fan and just so happened to cut Comics from my Budget as a Major Story-Arc wrapped up...so at least I got some sense of closure...

[Moondoggie]

About the same really. Comics,Figures,Anime and all sorts of weird and wonderful things i bought from Japan i used to buy quite a lot out there or import it but it's getting really expensive now so i've cut back to a very small ammount and sold off a lot of stuff i didn't definately want to keep.

[Crippledcarny]

I cut out caffeinated drinks. Left me with a killer headache when I stopped, but I'm saving around 20$ a week by only drinking water.

[Deathwurm]

Crippledcarny wrote...

I cut out caffeinated drinks. Left me with a killer headache when I stopped, but I'm saving around 20$ a week by only drinking water.

Dropping Caffene always does that...that's why I'm down to 1 a day...

[Druss99]

Drinking and books. Also buses. £1.50? It used to be 70p back in my day! I'd rather walk in the pissing down rain.

[vometia]

Druss99 wrote...

Drinking and books. Also buses. £1.50? It used to be 70p back in my day! I'd rather walk in the pissing down rain.

I remember when it was about tuppence ha'penny to get the bus into town, but over the past 10 years the fare has risen to £857, a 99-year advertising lease on your person, the forfeit of your firstborn and/or grandparents for medical experiments, three cows and a pig, two year subscription to EuroPerv 3 and a copy of that issue of EuroGamer with the Skyrim feature.

And that's only one way.

Er anyway, I haven't had to cut back too severely yet, but I have noticed conspicuous price rises both thanks to George Osborne's VAT hike (anybody else noticed how much he looks like Alex deLarge from A Clockwork Orange?) and on other stuff besides, and my income tax has shot up - though that's in part because the Inland Revenue made a complete arse of my tax code so I'm now paying the correct amount as well as catch-up payments on top; and we've yet to receive the council tax bill, but that's always massively inflation-busting.  And the energy company is hiking our bills up by 10% even though it never reduced them in line with the wholesale prices after 2008's nearly 50% increase.  Thanks, guys.

I'm just glad our mortgage is paid off since interest rates can't stay low for much longer - I remember a lot of discomfort that people were experiencing in the 1990s, so I hope nobody's overextended themselves there.

I guess we're comparatively lucky, but the influence of economic suckage is still making its presence felt.

[Deathwurm]

Ummm...

Ugly American here...

What's "VAT" gang?

[Druss99]

Deathwurm wrote...

Ummm...
Ugly American here...
What's "VAT" gang?

Value Added Tax. Its a tax you pay when buying stuff basically. Its gone up over here so everything is more expensive. Thats the easy version that I've chosen to accept as the only version.

[Ramirez Wolfen]

Nothing, I'm rich! Just kidding. I am poor (along with my family). I rely on my mother to take care of things (even though I'm 19), and we had to cancel cable, we don't have heat, and we don't have a landline phone.

[Deathwurm]

Druss99 wrote...

Deathwurm wrote...

Ummm...
Ugly American here...
What's "VAT" gang?

Value Added Tax. Its a tax you pay when buying stuff basically. Its gone up over here so everything is more expensive. Thats the easy version that I've chosen to accept as the only version.

Oh...here it's called "Sales Tax" and it falls under the control of each State...some States don't have any at all (like Delaware) so folks from South New Jersey and the Philadelphia area (where I'm from) always drive down there to buy big stuff like Flatscreens and Computers and such.

[vometia]

Druss99 wrote...

Value Added Tax. Its a tax you pay when buying stuff basically. Its gone up over here so everything is more expensive. Thats the easy version that I've chosen to accept as the only version.

It's only paid by nasty smelly common poor people, though.  Which is nice.

[Ponce de Leon]

Slovenia is fine... 2 liters of beer, 20 cents. 5 loaves of bread? 1 euro! Old Spice? 2.50.

...

Mass Effect 2? 15 euros! 1 liter of petrol? 1.20! Driving on our roads? 92 euros yearly.



To make it short, we really are a fun place to be, crime, ignorance, suicide rate aside. And besides, if I had to cut anything, I'd have to cut my weapon collection which comes badass expensive here and then.

[Druss99]

dark-lauron wrote...
Old Spice? 2.50.

:lol:

I worry about you sometimes Lauron.

[Beerfish]

dark-lauron wrote...

Slovenia is fine... 2 liters of beer, 20 cents. 5 loaves of bread? 1 euro! Old Spice? 2.50.
...
Mass Effect 2? 15 euros! 1 liter of petrol? 1.20! Driving on our roads? 92 euros yearly.

To make it short, we really are a fun place to be, crime, ignorance, suicide rate aside. And besides, if I had to cut anything, I'd have to cut my weapon collection which comes badass expensive here and then.

If cheese is not too expensive I could certainly live in Slovenia with the price of beer and bread!

[Ponce de Leon]

Wait, I'll check it straight away! Uhh... 9 euros per kilo.

[Deathwurm]

Autolycus wrote...

Deathwurm....
Basically (heh I love that word), we pay tax (of minimum 20p per pound after a certain amount per year) on our wages/salary, then we pay tax on everything we buy (almost), then we somehow, manage to save a little bit of money, and we get taxed on that too, then if your fortunate/unfortunate, depending on the value of the estate that someone may leave you in their will, they tax you on your inheritance also, even though its already been taxed three times before in some capacity...

UK....great place isn't it?

That's actually pretty much the same as it is here...except of course if you're Rich enough to actually be able to afford to pay all the high Taxes...then our Tax Codes give you a Pass and send the Bill to someone who makes far less than you do...seems a pretty Universal concept

[Giant ambush beetle]

Ammo, especially the larger expensive calibers ( € 2,5 / round. )  

Modifié par The Woldan , 03 février 2011 - 10:18 .

[weedyfun]

weed. so depressing.

[TheMufflon]

Well, I'm Swedish middle class... so nothing.

Modifié par TheMufflon, 03 février 2011 - 10:26 .

[Giant ambush beetle]

weedyfun wrote...

weed. so depressing.

Modifié par The Woldan , 03 février 2011 - 10:28 .

[Cartims]

Drinking, I loved my martini's.....no more.